Grammy Awards of 1996
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The 38th Grammy Awards were held on February 28, 1996. The awards recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

 was the night's big winner, scoring four trophies, including Album of the Year.

Award winners

  • Record of the Year
    Grammy Award for Record of the Year
    The Record of the Year is one of the four most prestigious Grammy Awards presented annually. It has been awarded since 1959.-History:The honorees through its history have been:*1959-1965: Artist only.*1966-1998: Artist and producer....

    • Trevor Horn
      Trevor Horn
      Trevor Charles Horn CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in north-east England....

       (producer) & Seal
      Seal (musician)
      Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel , known simply as Seal, is a British soul and R&B singer-songwriter, of Nigerian and Brazilian background. Seal has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1992, four Grammy Awards, and an...

       for "Kiss From a Rose"

  • Album of the Year
    Grammy Award for Album of the Year
    The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys. It has been awarded since 1959 and though it was originally presented to the artist alone, the award is now presented to the artist, the producer, the engineer and/or mixer and the mastering engineer...

    • Glen Ballard
      Glen Ballard
      Glen Ballard is an American songwriter and record producer, best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill , which won Grammy Award for "Best Rock Album", and "Album of the Year" amongst others, and is ranked by the Rolling Stone amongst The 500 Greatest Albums of...

       (producer) & Alanis Morissette
      Alanis Morissette
      Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

       for Jagged Little Pill

  • Song of the Year
    Grammy Award for Song of the Year
    The Song of the Year is one of the four most prestigious awards in the Grammy Awards ceremony, if not in all of the American music industry. It has been awarded since 1959 and unlike the Record of the Year award, which goes to the performer and production team of a single song, Song of the Year...

    • Seal
      Seal (musician)
      Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel , known simply as Seal, is a British soul and R&B singer-songwriter, of Nigerian and Brazilian background. Seal has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1992, four Grammy Awards, and an...

       (songwriter) for "Kiss From a Rose"

  • Best New Artist
    Grammy Award for Best New Artist
    The Grammy Award for Best New Artist has been awarded since 1959. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for records released in the previous year. The award was not presented in 1967...

    • Hootie & the Blowfish
      Hootie & the Blowfish
      Hootie & the Blowfish is an American rock band that enjoyed popularity in the second half of the 1990s. They were originally formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. The band has recorded five studio albums to date, and has...


Alternative

  • Best Alternative Music Performance
    • Nirvana
      Nirvana (band)
      Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...

       for MTV Unplugged in New York

Blues

  • Best Traditional Blues Album
    Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album was awarded from 1983 to 2011. From 2001 to 2003 the award recipients included the producers and engineers as well as the artists...

    • John Lee Hooker
      John Lee Hooker
      John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...

       for Chill Out
  • Best Contemporary Blues Album
    Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album was awarded from 1988 to 2011. From 2001 to 2003 the award recipients included the producers and engineers as well as the artists...

    • Buddy Guy
      Buddy Guy
      George "Buddy" Guy is an American blues and jazz guitarist and singer. He is a critically acclaimed artist who has established himself as a pioneer of the Chicago blues sound, and has served as an influence to some of the most notable musicians of his generation...

       for Slippin' In

Children's

  • Best Musical Album for Children
    Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children
    The Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children was an honor presented to recording artists for quality children's music albums at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...

    • J. Aaron Brown, David R. Lehman (producers) & Barbara Bailey Hutchison for Sleepy Time Lullabys
  • Best Spoken Word Album for Children
    Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children
    The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for works containing quality "spoken word" performances aimed at children...

    • Dan Broatman, Martin Sauer (producers) & Patrick Stewart
      Patrick Stewart
      Sir Patrick Hewes Stewart, OBE is an English film, television and stage actor, who has had a distinguished career in theatre and television for around half a century...

       for Prokofiev
      Sergei Prokofiev
      Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

      : Peter and the Wolf

Classical

  • Best Orchestral Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance has been awarded since 1959. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:*From 1959 to 1964 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Orchestra...

    • Pierre Boulez
      Pierre Boulez
      Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...

       (conductor) & the Cleveland Orchestra
      Cleveland Orchestra
      The Cleveland Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1918, the orchestra plays most of its concerts at Severance Hall...

       for Debussy
      Claude Debussy
      Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...

      : La Mer
  • Best Classical Vocal Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo has been awarded since 1959. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:...

    • Christopher Hogwood
      Christopher Hogwood
      Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE, MA , HonMusD , born 10 September 1941, Nottingham, is an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer and musicologist, well known as the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music.-Biography:...

       (conductor), Sylvia McNair
      Sylvia McNair
      Sylvia McNair is an American opera singer and classical recitalist who has also achieved notable success in the Broadway and cabaret genres. McNair, a soprano, has made several critically acclaimed recordings and has won two Grammy Awards....

       & the Academy of Ancient Music
      Academy of Ancient Music
      The Academy of Ancient Music is a period-instrument orchestra based in Cambridge, England. Founded by harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood in 1973, it was named after a previous organisation of the same name of the 18th century. The musicians play on either original instruments or modern copies of...

       for The Echoing Air - The Music of Henry Purcell
      Henry Purcell
      Henry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music...

  • Best Opera Recording
    Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording
    The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961. The award was originally titled Best Classical Opera Production. The current title has been used since 1962....

    • Raymond Minshull (producer), Charles Dutoit
      Charles Dutoit
      Charles Édouard Dutoit, is a Swiss conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music...

       (conductor), Gary Lakes
      Gary Lakes
      -Biography:Lakes was born in Woodward, Oklahoma, and raised in Irving, Texas. He made his professional debut with the Seattle Opera in the role of Froh in 1981 in Wagner's Das Rheingold, after attending Southern Methodist University...

      , Françoise Pollet, Gino Quilico
      Gino Quilico
      Gino Quilico, OC is a Canadian lyric baritone of Italian descent and the son of Canadian baritone Louis Quilico and Lina Pizzolongo.-Early life:...

      , Deborah Voigt
      Deborah Voigt
      Deborah Voigt is an American operatic soprano. Voigt regularly performs in opera houses and concert halls worldwide.- Early life and education :...

       & L'Orchestra Symphonie Montreal & Chorus
      Montreal Symphony Orchestra
      Orchestre symphonique de Montréal is a symphony orchestra based in Montréal, Québec, Canada, with Montréal's Place des Arts as its home.-History:...

       for Berlioz
      Hector Berlioz
      Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...

      : Les Troyens
  • Best Choral Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance has been awarded since 1961. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:*In 1961 the award was known as Best Classical Performance - Choral ...

    • Herbert Blomstedt
      Herbert Blomstedt
      Herbert Blomstedt is a Swedish conductor.Herbert Blomstedt was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and two years after his birth, his Swedish parents moved the family back to their country of origin...

       (conductor), Vance George
      Vance George
      Vance George is an American choral conductor from Nappanee, Indiana.A protege of Margaret Hillis, Vance George served as choral director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus for 23 years ....

       (choir director) & the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Brahms
      Johannes Brahms
      Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...

      : Ein Deutsches Requiem
  • Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
    Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
    The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance was awarded from 1959 to 2011. From 1967 to 1971 and in 1987 the award was combined with the award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance and awarded as the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or...

    • Seiji Ozawa
      Seiji Ozawa
      is a Japanese conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic works. He is most known for his work as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera.-Early years:...

       (conductor), Itzhak Perlman
      Itzhak Perlman
      Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-born violinist, conductor, and instructor of master classes. He is regarded as one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th and early-21st centuries.-Early life:...

       & the Boston Symphony Orchestra
      Boston Symphony Orchestra
      The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at the Tanglewood Music Center...

       for The American Album - Works of Bernstein
      Leonard Bernstein
      Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...

      , Barber
      Samuel Barber
      Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...

      , Foss
      Lukas Foss
      Lukas Foss was a German-born American composer, conductor, and pianist.-Music career:He was born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922. His father was the philosopher and scholar Martin Fuchs...

  • Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)
    Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)
    The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance was awarded from 1959 to 2011. From 1967 to 1971 and in 1987 the award was combined with the award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance and awarded as the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or...

    • Radu Lupu
      Radu Lupu
      Radu Lupu is a Romanian concert pianist. He has won a number of the most prestigious awards in classical piano, including first prizes in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition....

       for Schubert
      Franz Schubert
      Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...

      : Piano Sonatas (B Flat Major and A Major)
  • Best Chamber Music Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1959 to 1960 the award was known as Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music ...

    • Emanuel Ax
      Emanuel Ax
      Emanuel Ax is a Grammy-winning American classical pianist. He is currently a teacher on the faculty of the Juilliard School. He is considered one of the best known concert pianists of the 21st century.-Early life:...

      , Yo-Yo Ma
      Yo-Yo Ma
      Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...

       & Richard Stoltzman
      Richard Stoltzman
      Richard Stoltzman is an American clarinetist. Born Richard Leslie Stoltzman in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent his early years in San Francisco, California and Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from Woodward High School in 1960. Today, Stoltzman is part of the faculty list at the New England Conservatory...

       for Brahms
      Johannes Brahms
      Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...

      /Beethoven
      Ludwig van Beethoven
      Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

      /Mozart
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

      : Clarinet Trios
  • Best Classical Contemporary Composition
    Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition
    The Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition was first awarded in 1961. This award was not presented from 1967 to 1984.The award has had several minor name changes:...

    • Olivier Messiaen
      Olivier Messiaen
      Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

       (composer) & Myung-whun Chung
      Myung-Whun Chung
      Myung-whun Chung is a South Korean pianist and conductor.His sisters, violinist Kyung-wha Chung, and cellist Myung-wha Chung, and he at one time performed together as the Chung Trio. He was a joined second-prize winner in the 1974 International Tchaikovsky Competition. Chung studied conducting at...

       (conductor) for Messiaen: Concert a Quatre
  • Best Classical Album
    Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Classical Album was awarded from 1962 to 2011. The award had several minor name changes:*From 1962 to 1963, 1965 to 1972 and 1974 to 1976 the award was known as Album of the Year - Classical...

    • Karl-August Naegler (producer), Pierre Boulez
      Pierre Boulez
      Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...

       (conductor) & the Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus
      Cleveland Orchestra
      The Cleveland Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1918, the orchestra plays most of its concerts at Severance Hall...

       for Debussy
      Claude Debussy
      Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...

      : La Mer; Nocturnes; Jeux

Composing and arranging

  • Best Instrumental Composition
    Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition
    The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition has been awarded since 1960. The award is presented to the composer of the music.There have been several minor changes to the name of the award:...

    • Bill Holman
      Bill Holman (musician)
      Willis Leonard Holman , known also as Bill Holman, is an American composer/arranger, conductor, saxophonist, and songwriter working primarily in the jazz idiom....

       (composer) for "A View From the Side" performed by The Bill Holman Band
  • Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television
    Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
    The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media has been awarded since 1988 and is awarded to songs written for films, television, video games or other visual media...

    • Alan Menken
      Alan Menken
      Alan Menken is an American musical theatre and film composer and pianist.Menken is best known for his numerous scores for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas have each won him two Academy Awards...

       & Stephen Schwartz
      Stephen Schwartz (composer)
      Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theatre lyricist and composer. In a career spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell , Pippin and Wicked...

       (songwriters) for "Colors of the Wind
      Colors of the Wind
      "Colors of the Wind" by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, was the 1995 Oscar-winner for Best Original Song from the Disney animated feature film, Pocahontas. It also won the Golden Globe in the same category as well as the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Movie...

      " performed by Judy Kuhn
      Judy Kuhn
      -Life and career:Kuhn was born in New York City and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C.She entered Oberlin College in 1976. Although she was very interested in singing and theater, she began Oberlin in the College, not the Conservatory. After taking...

       & Vanessa Williams
      Vanessa L. Williams
      Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American pop-R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model, actress and showgirl. In 1983, she became the first woman of African-American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal generated by her having posed for nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine...

  • Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television
    Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
    The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media has been awarded since 1960. Until 2001 the award was presented to the composer of the music alone. From 2001 to 2006, the producer and engineers shared in this award...

    • Hans Zimmer
      Hans Zimmer
      Hans Florian Zimmer is a German film composer and music producer. He has composed music for over 100 films, including critically acclaimed film scores for The Lion King , Crimson Tide , The Thin Red Line , Gladiator , The Dark Knight and Inception .Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the...

       (composer) for Crimson Tide
  • Best Instrumental Arrangement
    Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement
    The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement has been awarded since 1963. The award is presented to the arranger of the music.There have been several minor changes to the name of the award:...

    • Robert Farnon
      Robert Farnon
      Robert Joseph Farnon was a Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player. As well as being a famous composer of original works , he was recognised as one of the finest arrangers of his generation...

       (arranger) for "Lament" performed by J. J. Johnson & the Robert Farnon Orchestra
  • Best Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying Vocal(s)
    Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
    The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist has been awarded since 1963. The award is presented to the arranger of the music.There have been several minor changes to the name of the award:...

    • Rob McConnell
      Rob McConnell
      Robert Murray Gordon "Rob" McConnell, was a Canadian jazz valve trombonist, composer, arranger, music educator, and recording artist.-Biography:...

       (arranger) for "I Get a Kick Out of You" performed by Mel Tormé
      Mel Tormé
      Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...

       with Rob McConnell
      Rob McConnell
      Robert Murray Gordon "Rob" McConnell, was a Canadian jazz valve trombonist, composer, arranger, music educator, and recording artist.-Biography:...

       & The Boss Brass

Country

  • Best Female Country Vocal Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance was first awarded in 1965, to Dottie West. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1965 to 1967 the award was known as Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female...

    • Alison Krauss
      Alison Krauss
      Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...

       for "Baby, Now That I've Found You"
  • Best Male Country Vocal Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance was awarded between 1965 and 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1965 to 1967 the award was known as Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male...

    • Vince Gill
      Vince Gill
      Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...

       for "Go Rest High on That Mountain
      Go Rest High on That Mountain
      "Go Rest High on That Mountain" is a country song written and recorded by Vince Gill. It was released in August 1995 as a single from his 1994 album When Love Finds You. It is a eulogic ballad. Gill began writing the song following the death of country music superstar Keith Whitley, who died in 1989...

      "
  • Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
    Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
    The Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal was awarded from 1970 to 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1970 the award was known as Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group...

    • The Mavericks
      The Mavericks
      The Mavericks is a country music band founded in 1989 in Miami, Florida, United States. Between 1991 and 2003 they recorded six studio albums, in addition to charting 14 singles on the Billboard country charts...

       for "Here Comes the Rain
      Here Comes the Rain
      "Here Comes the Rain" is the title of a song written by Raul Malo and Kostas, and recorded by American country music group The Mavericks. It was released in August 1995 as the first single from the album Music for All Occasions...

      "
  • Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
    Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
    The Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to quality country music collaborations for artists who do not normally perform together...

    • Alison Krauss
      Alison Krauss
      Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...

       & Shenandoah
      Shenandoah (band)
      Shenandoah is an American country music group founded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1984 by Marty Raybon , Ralph Ezell , Stan Thorn , Jim Seales , and Mike McGuire...

       for "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart"
  • Best Country Instrumental Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance was awarded from 1970 to 2011. Between 1986 and 1989 the award was presented as the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance ....

    • Asleep at the Wheel
      Asleep at the Wheel
      Asleep at the Wheel is a American country music group that was formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, but based in Austin, Texas. Altogether, they have won nine Grammy Awards since their 1970 inception. In their career, they have released more than twenty studio albums, and have charted more than twenty...

      , Béla Fleck
      Béla Fleck
      Béla Anton Leoš Fleck is an American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.-Early life and career details:Fleck was born in...

       & Johnny Gimble
      Johnny Gimble
      John Paul Gimble , better known as Johnny Gimble, is an American country musician associated with Western swing. He is an award-winning fiddle player and considered one of the most impressive fiddlers in the genre's history....

       for "Hightower"
  • Best Country Song
    Grammy Award for Best Country Song
    The Grammy Award for Best Country Song has been awarded since 1965. The award is given to the writer of the song.There have been several minor changes to the name of the award:...

    • Vince Gill
      Vince Gill
      Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...

       (songwriter) for "Go Rest High on That Mountain
      Go Rest High on That Mountain
      "Go Rest High on That Mountain" is a country song written and recorded by Vince Gill. It was released in August 1995 as a single from his 1994 album When Love Finds You. It is a eulogic ballad. Gill began writing the song following the death of country music superstar Keith Whitley, who died in 1989...

      "
  • Best Country Album
    Grammy Award for Best Country Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Country Album has been awarded since 1994. The equivalent award, the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Album was presented in 1965 and 1966...

    • Robert John "Mutt" Lange (producer) & Shania Twain
      Shania Twain
      Shania Twain, OC is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. Her album The Woman in Me , brought her fame and her 1997 album Come On Over, became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million...

       for The Woman in Me
  • Best Bluegrass Album
    Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works in the bluegrass music genre...

    • The Nashville Bluegrass Band
      Nashville Bluegrass Band
      The Nashville Bluegrass Band is an American bluegrass music ensemble founded in 1984.The group's members first played together in 1984 as a backing band for Vernon Oxford and Minnie Pearl; each of the members were established musicians from the Nashville bluegrass community. They signed to Rounder...

       for Unleashed
      Unleashed (Nashville Bluegrass Band album)
      Unleashed is an album by the Nashville Bluegrass Band, released through Sugar Hill Records in October 1995. In 1996, the album won the group the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.-Track listing:# "Tear My Stillhouse Down" – 2:27...


Folk

  • Best Traditional Folk Album
    Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album was awarded from 1987 to 2011. Until 1993 the award was known as the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Recording.An award for Best Contemporary Folk Album was also presented...

    • Ramblin' Jack Elliott
      Ramblin' Jack Elliott
      Ramblin' Jack Elliott is an American folk singer and performer.-Life and career:Elliot Charles Adnopoz was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents in 1931. Elliott grew up inspired by the rodeos at Madison Square Garden, and wanted to be a cowboy...

       for South Coast
  • Best Contemporary Folk Album
    Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album was awarded from 1987 to 2011. Until 1993 the award was known as the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Recording. In 2007, this category was renamed Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album...

    • Emmylou Harris
      Emmylou Harris
      Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...

       for Wrecking Ball

Gospel

  • Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
    Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album was awarded from 1991 to 2011. From 1991 to 1993 it was awarded as Best Pop Gospel Album.The award will be discontinued from 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories...

    • Michael W. Smith
      Michael W. Smith
      Michael Whitaker Smith is a Billboard top ten Billboard Hot 100 recording artist and Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in Contemporary Christian music. Smith also has achieved a considerable amount of...

       for I'll Lead You Home
  • Best Rock Gospel Album
    Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album was awarded from 1991 to 2011. From 1991 to 1993 it was awarded as Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album. In 2011 the category was known as Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album....

    • Ashley Cleveland
      Ashley Cleveland
      Ashley Cleveland is an American singer/songwriter perhaps best known as a background vocalist and Grammy-winning gospel singer. Ashley Cleveland was born in Knoxville, Tennessee...

       for Lesson of Love
  • Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
    Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Gospel Album was awarded from 1991 to 2011. A similar award, the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional was awarded from 1978 to 1983. It was previously known as the award Best Traditional Soul Gospel AlbumThe award will be discontinued...

    • Shirley Caesar
      Shirley Caesar
      Shirley Ann Caesar is an American Gospel music singer, songwriter and recording artist whose career has spanned six decades...

       for Shirley Caesar Live - He Will Come
  • Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
    Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album has been awarded since 1991. An similar award, the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary, was awarded from 1978 to 1983...

    • CeCe Winans
      CeCe Winans
      Priscilla "CeCe" Marie Winans Love is an American Gospel singer, who has won numerous Grammy and Stellar Awards.-Early life:CeCe Winans was born in Detroit, Michigan, to David and Delores Winans, on October 8, 1964...

       for Alone In His Presence
  • Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel or Bluegrass Gospel Album
    Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album was awarded from 1991 to 2011. Originally the award was for southern gospel only, but the criteria were expanded in 1994...

    • Bill Hearn (producer) for Amazing Grace - A Country Salute to Gospel performed by various artists
  • Best Gospel Album by a Choir or Chorus
    Grammy Award for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album has been awarded since 1991. From 1991 to 1997 it was awarded as Best Gospel Album by a Choir or Chorus....

    • Carol Cymbala
      Carol Cymbala
      Carol Cymbala is the choir director for the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. She is the wife of pastor Jim Cymbala and daughter of Reverend Clair Hutchins.- Awards :*Grammy Award for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album in 2000, 2001, and 2003...

       (choir director) for Praise Him - Live! performed by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

Historical

  • Best Historical Album
    Grammy Award for Best Historical Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Historical Album has been presented since 1979. During this time the award had several minor name changes:*In 1979 the award was known as Best Historical Repackage Album*In 1980 it was awarded as Best Historical Reissue...

    • John Pfeiffer
      John Pfeiffer
      John "Jack" Pfeiffer , was a classical recording producer.-Life and career:Born in Tucson, Arizona, Pfeiffer studied music and engineering at the University of Arizona and Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas...

       (producer & notes writer), Ray Hall, Thomas MacCluskey, James P. Nichols
      James P. Nichols
      James P. Nichols is recognized as an expert in the recording industry having served as executive producer and master engineer.- Education :His involvement in the recording industry began in 1973 when after studying recording at The New School For Social Research, he obtained an Assistant Engineer...

      , Anthony Salvatore, Jon M. Samuels, David Satz (engineers), J.J. Stelmach (art director), Gabriel Banat, Grant Beglarian, Robert Cowan
      Robert Cowan
      Robert Cowan was an Irish colonial administrator and the East India Company's Governor of Bombay from 1729 to 1734. He was a collateral ancestor of the Marquesses of Londonderry through the marriage of his sister, Mary Cowan, to Alexander Stewart, father of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of...

      , Mortimer W. Frank, Richard Freed, Erick Friedman
      Erick Friedman
      Erick Friedman is considered by many as one of the greatest American born violinists of the past century. Erick Friedman's illustrious career took him to many of the great concert stages of the world appearing as guest soloist with most of the great orchestras throughout the United States and...

      , Harris Goldsmith, Josefa Heifetz, George Jellinek
      George Jellinek
      George Jellinek was the Hungarian-born host of The Vocal Scene, a weekly syndicated radio feature produced by WQXR radio of New York City...

      , Irving Kolodin
      Irving Kolodin
      Irving Kolodin was an American music critic and music historian.-Biography:Irving Kolodin was born in New York City, New York. He wrote for the New York Sun from 1932 to 1950 and for the Saturday Review starting in 1947. He was best known for his popular Guide to Recorded Music...

      , Jacob Lateiner
      Jacob Lateiner
      Jacob Lateiner, was a Cuban-American pianist. He was actually born on March 31, 1928, but his father did not get around to registering his birth until May 31 the same year.He was the brother of violinist Isidor Lateiner....

      , Laurence Lesser, Myra C. Livingston, John Maltese, John Anthony Maltese, Leonard Pennario
      Leonard Pennario
      Leonard Pennario was an American classical pianist and composer.He was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Los Angeles, attending Los Angeles High School remaining in L.A. for his entire career. He first came to notice when he performed Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto at age 12, with the...

       & Brooks Smith (notes writers) for The Heifetz Collection performed by Jascha Heifetz
      Jascha Heifetz
      Jascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...

       & various artists

Jazz

  • Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
    Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
    The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo has been awarded since 1959. Before 1979 the award title did not specify instrumental performances and was presented for instrumental or vocal performances...

    • Michael Brecker
      Michael Brecker
      Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...

       for "Impressions"
  • Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group
    Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
    The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album is an award that will start being presented in 2012.The Award was previously called Best Instrumental Jazz Album, Individual or Group from 1959 to 2011. The award will formally be discontinued from 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories...

    • McCoy Tyner Trio
      McCoy Tyner
      McCoy Tyner is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.-Early life:...

       & Michael Brecker
      Michael Brecker
      Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...

       for "Infinity"
  • Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album has been presented since 1961. From 1962 to 1971 and 1979 to 1991 the award title specified instrumental performances...

    • Tom Scott
      Tom Scott (musician)
      Tom Scott is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, conductor and bandleader of the west coast jazz/jazz fusion ensemble The L.A. Express.-Biography:Scott was born in Los Angeles, California...

       for "All Blues" performed by the GRP All-Star Big Band
      GRP All-Star Big Band
      The GRP Band was a group compiled in the late 1980s under the direction of Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen, principles of GRP Records. The band was a full band, and they mostly played well-known jazz pieces from the 1950s and 1960s written by famous musicians and composers...

  • Best Jazz Vocal Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album has been presented since 1977. Until 2001 this award was titled the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance...

    • Lena Horne
      Lena Horne
      Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the...

       for An Evening with Lena Horne
      An Evening with Lena Horne
      An Evening with Lena Horne is a 1994 live album by Lena Horne. At the 38th Grammy Awards, Horne's performance on this album won her the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.-Track listing:# "I Come Runnin'" – 3:08...

  • Best Contemporary Jazz Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for works containing quality contemporary jazz performances...

    • Pat Metheny Group
      Pat Metheny Group
      The Pat Metheny Group is a jazz group founded in 1977. The core members of the group are guitarist and bandleader Pat Metheny, composer, keyboardist and pianist Lyle Mays , and bassist and producer Steve Rodby...

       for "We Live Here"
  • Best Latin Jazz Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works in the Latin jazz music genre...

    • Jobim
      Antônio Carlos Jobim
      Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim , was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within...

       for Antonio Brasileiro
      Antonio Brasileiro
      Antonio Brasileiro is the fifteenth album by Antonio Carlos Jobim. It was released days after his death in 1994. The album was completed 11 months before his death...


Latin

  • Best Latin Pop Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album was awarded from 1984 to 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1984 to 1991 the award was known as Best Latin Pop Performance*From 1992 to 1994 it was awarded as Best Latin Pop Album...

    • Jon Secada
      Jon Secada
      Jon Secada is a Cuban-American singer and songwriter. Secada was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Hialeah, Florida. He has won two Grammy Awards and sold 20 million albums since his English-language debut album in 1992. His music fuses funk, soul, pop and Latin percussion...

       for Amor
  • Best Tropical Latin Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album has been awarded since 1984. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1984 to 1991 the award was known as Best Tropical Latin Performance...

    • Gloria Estefan
      Gloria Estefan
      Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...

       for Abriendo Puertas
  • Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album was an honor presented to recording artists for quality albums in the Mexican music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...

    • Flaco Jiménez
      Flaco Jiménez
      Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez is a Tejano music accordionist from San Antonio, Texas. Jiménez's father, Santiago Jiménez Sr. was a pioneer of conjunto music. He began performing with his father at age seven and recording at age fifteen, as a member of Los Caporales...

       for Flaco Jiménez
      Flaco Jiménez (album)
      Flaco Jiménez is title of a studio album released by American performer Flaco Jiménez. It was released in October 25, 1994 by Arista Records. Jiménez was awarded the Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance at the 38th Grammy Awards with the album....


Musical show

  • Best Musical Show Album
    Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album has been awarded since 1959. The award was given only to the album producer, and to the composer and lyricist who wrote at least 51% of the music which had not been recorded previously....

    • Arif Mardin
      Arif Mardin
      Arif Mardin was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco, and country...

      , Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller (producers) & the original Broadway cast for Smokey Joe's Cafe - The Songs of Leiber & Stoller

Music video

  • Best Music Video, Short Form
    Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video
    The Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to performers, directors, and producers of quality short form music videos...

    • Cean Chaffin (producer), Mark Romanek
      Mark Romanek
      Mark Romanek is an American filmmaker, whose directing work includes feature films, music videos and commercials.He wrote and directed the critically acclaimed 2002 film One Hour Photo starring Robin Williams...

       (director), Janet Jackson
      Janet Jackson
      Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years...

       & Michael Jackson
      Michael Jackson
      Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

       for "Scream
      Scream/Childhood
      "Scream"/"Childhood" is the lead single from Michael Jackson's ninth studio album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I where "Scream" is the first song and "Childhood" is the tenth song on the second disc of the album HIStory Continues. The A-side, "Scream", is a duet with his younger sister...

      "
  • Best Music Video, Long Form
    Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video
    The Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video is an accolade presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally named the Gramophone Awards, to performers, directors, and producers of quality videos or musical programs...

    • Robert Warr (producer), François Girard
      François Girard
      François Girard is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit...

       (director) & Peter Gabriel
      Peter Gabriel
      Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

       for Secret World Live
      Secret World Live (DVD)
      Secret World Live is a film of a Peter Gabriel concert in 1993, as part of his Secret World Live tour to support his sixth solo album, Us. The show is performed across two stages: a square and a circular stage, bridged by a conveyor belt. It was released on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD...


New Age

  • Best New Age Album
    Grammy Award for Best New Age Album
    The Grammy Award for Best New Age Album is presented to recording artists for quality albums in the New Age music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...

    • George Winston
      George Winston
      George Winston is an American pianist who was born in Michigan, and grew up mainly in Miles City, Montana as well as Mississippi and Florida. He attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida and lives in Santa Cruz, California.-Background:...

       for Forest

Packaging and notes

  • Best Recording Package
    Grammy Award for Best Recording Package
    The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is one of a series of Grammy Awards presented for the visual look of an album. It is presented to the art director of the winning album, not to the performer, except if the performer is also the art director....

    • Joni Mitchell
      Joni Mitchell
      Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

       & Robbie Cavolina (art directors) for Turbulent Indigo performed by Joni Mitchell
  • Best Recording Package - Boxed
    Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
    The Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package has been presented since 1995. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1995 to 1997 the award was known as Best Recording Package - Boxed...

    • Frank Zappa
      Frank Zappa
      Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

       & Gail Zappa
      Gail Zappa
      Gail Zappa was the second wife of the late musician and composer Frank Zappa and is the executrix of the Zappa Family Trust. They met in 1966 when she was working at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, and they were married on September 21, 1967, while she was pregnant with her first child, Moon...

       (art directors) for Civilization Phaze III performed by Frank Zappa
  • Best Album Notes
    Grammy Award for Best Album Notes
    The Grammy Award for Best Album Notes has been presented since 1964. From 1973 to 1976, a separate award was presented for Best Album Notes - Classical. Those awards are listed under those years below. The award recognizes albums with excellent liner notes...

    • Rob Bowman
      Rob Bowman (music writer)
      Rob Bowman is a contemporaneous Canadian professor of ethnomusicology and a music writer. He currently lives in Toronto with both his children....

       (notes writer) for The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 3: 1972 - 1975 performed by various artists

Polka

  • Best Polka Album
    Grammy Award for Best Polka Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Polka Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality polka albums...

    • Jimmy Sturr
      Jimmy Sturr
      James W. "Jimmy" Sturr, Jr. is a polka musician, trumpeter/clarinetist/saxophonist and leader of Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra. His recordings have won 18 out of the 24 Grammy Awards given for Best Polka Album. Sturr's orchestra is on the Top Ten List of the All-Time Grammy Awards, and has acquired...

       for I Love to Polka
      I Love to Polka
      I Love to Polka is an album by Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra, released through Rounder Records in 1995. In 1996, the album won Sturr the Grammy Award for Best Polka Album.-Track listing:# "It's Party Time" – 2:41...


Pop

  • Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance is the latest in a series of awards recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959. The award goes to the artist...

    • Annie Lennox
      Annie Lennox
      Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...

       for "No More 'I Love Yous'"
  • Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance was awarded between 1966 and 2011...

    • Seal
      Seal (musician)
      Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel , known simply as Seal, is a British soul and R&B singer-songwriter, of Nigerian and Brazilian background. Seal has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1992, four Grammy Awards, and an...

       for "Kiss From a Rose"
  • Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
    Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
    The Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals was awarded between 1966 and 2011...

    • Hootie & the Blowfish
      Hootie & the Blowfish
      Hootie & the Blowfish is an American rock band that enjoyed popularity in the second half of the 1990s. They were originally formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. The band has recorded five studio albums to date, and has...

       for "Let Her Cry"
  • Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
    Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
    The Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality pop songs on which singers collaborate...

    • The Chieftains
      The Chieftains
      The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world.-Name:...

       & Van Morrison
      Van Morrison
      Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...

       for "Have I Told You Lately
      Have I Told You Lately
      "Have I Told You Lately" is a hit song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and recorded for his 1989 album Avalon Sunset. It is a romantic ballad often played at weddings although it was originally written also as a prayer....

      "
  • Best Pop Instrumental Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance was awarded between 1969 and 2011.*In 1969 it was awarded as Best Contemporary-Pop Performance, Instrumental*From 1970 to 1971 it was awarded as Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance...

    • Los Lobos
      Los Lobos
      Los Lobos are a multiple Grammy Award–winning American Chicano rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños.-History:The...

       for "Mariachi Suite"
  • Best Pop Album
    Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality pop music albums...

    • Larry Klein
      Larry Klein
      Larry Klein is a music producer, songwriter and bass guitar player, commonly known for being the frequent musical collaborator, and ex-husband, of Joni Mitchell....

       (producer) & Joni Mitchell
      Joni Mitchell
      Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

       (producer & artist) for Turbulent Indigo

Production and engineering

  • Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
    Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
    The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Engineered Record - Non-Classical...

    • David Bianco
      David Bianco
      David Bianco is the co-founder of Elderhostel, a not-for-profit organization established in the United States in 1975, which offers adults lifelong learning opportunities across North America and throughout the world.-Biography:...

      , Jim Scott
      Jim Scott (producer)
      Jim Scott is an American music producer and engineer, best known for his large body of work as an engineer, and his work as a producer with American rock band Wilco. Scott has worked as engineer with a range of other rock music artists, including Dixie Chicks, Tom Petty, Sting, The Rolling Stones,...

      , Richard Dodd
      Richard Dodd
      Richard Dodd is a cellist, recording artist, musician in Bristol, England.- Biography :Emigrated with his family to the United States at the age of 2 to Long Beach, California. He began studying the cello at age 10 and took his advanced studies at California State University, Northridge.- Career...

       & Stephen McLaughlin
      Stephen McLaughlin
      Stephen McLaughlin is an Irish footballer who currently plays in left midfield with League of Ireland club Derry City FC.-Career:McLaughlin began his career at his local club St. Mary's, and played all his underage football for the club...

       (engineers) for Wildflowers performed by Tom Petty
      Tom Petty
      Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T...

  • Best Classical Engineered Recording
    Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical
    The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Engineered Record ...

    • Jonathan Stokes
      Jonathan Stokes
      Jonathan Stokes was an English physician and botanist, a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, and an early adopter of the heart drug digitalis.-Life and work:...

      , Michael Mailes (engineers), Herbert Blomstedt
      Herbert Blomstedt
      Herbert Blomstedt is a Swedish conductor.Herbert Blomstedt was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and two years after his birth, his Swedish parents moved the family back to their country of origin...

       (conductor) & the San Francisco Symphony
      San Francisco Symphony
      The San Francisco Symphony is an orchestra based in San Francisco, California. Since 1980, the orchestra has performed at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus are part of the organization...

       for Bartók
      Béla Bartók
      Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

      : Concerto For Orchestra; " Kossuth" - Symphonic Poem
  • Producer of the Year
    Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
    The Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical has been awarded since 1975. The award had several minor name changes:*from 1975 to 1977, the award was known as Best Producer of the Year...

    • Babyface
  • Classical Producer of the Year
    Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical
    The Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical is an honor presented to record producers for quality classical music productions at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...

    • Steven Epstein
      Steven Epstein (music producer)
      Steven Epstein, an American producer of classical music received a B.Sc. in Music education from Hofstra University in 1973.Over the years, Epstein has worked with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Plácido Domingo, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Bobby McFerrin,...


R&B

  • Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to female recording artists for quality R&B songs...

    • Anita Baker
      Anita Baker
      Anita Baker is an American R&B/soul jazz singer-songwriter. To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards, and has four platinum albums and two gold albums to her credit....

       for "I Apologize"
  • Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance was awarded between 1968 and 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1968 it was awarded as Best R&B Solo Vocal Performance, Male...

    • Stevie Wonder
      Stevie Wonder
      Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

       for "For Your Love"
  • Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
    Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
    The Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal was awarded between 1970 and 2011. From 1967 to 1969 and in 1971 the award included instrumental performances...

    • TLC for "Creep"
  • Best Rhythm & Blues Song
    Grammy Award for Best R&B Song
    The Grammy Award for Best R&B Song has been awarded since 1959. From 1969 to 2000 it was known as the Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Song, from 1962 to 1968 it was known as Best Rhythm & Blues Recording, and from 1959-1961 as Best Rhythm & Blues Performance...

    • Stevie Wonder
      Stevie Wonder
      Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

       (songwriter) for "For Your Love"
  • Best R&B Album
    Grammy Award for Best R&B Album
    The Grammy Award for Best R&B Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works on albums in the R&B music genre...

    • TLC for CrazySexyCool
      CrazySexyCool
      CrazySexyCool is the second studio album by American R&B group TLC, released by LaFace Records on November 15, 1994 in North America...


Rap

  • Best Rap Solo Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance was awarded from 1991 to 2011, alongside the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. Previously a single award was presented for Best Rap Performance....

    • Coolio
      Coolio
      Artis Leon Ivey Jr. , better known by the stage name Coolio, is an American musician, rapper, actor and record producer.-Late 80s:He recorded two singles in the late 80s, titled "Watcha Gonna Do" and "You're Gonna Miss Me"...

       for "Gangsta's Paradise"
  • Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
    Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
    The Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group was awarded between 1991 and 2011, alongside the Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. Previously a single award was presented for Best Rap Performance....

    • Mary J. Blige
      Mary J. Blige
      Mary Jane Blige is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actress. She is a recipient of nine Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards, and has recorded eight multi-platinum albums. She is the only artist with Grammy Award wins in Pop, Rap, Gospel, and R&B. Blige has...

       & Method Man
      Method Man
      Clifford Smith , better known by his stage name Method Man is an American hip hop artist, record producer, actor and member of the hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He took his stage name from the 1979 film The Fearless Young Boxer, also known as Method Man. He is one half of the rap duo Method Man...

       for "I'll Be There for You"/"You're All I Need to Get By"
  • Best Rap Album
    Grammy Award for Best Rap Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Rap Album is an award presented to recording artists for quality albums with rapping at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...

    • Naughty by Nature
      Naughty by Nature
      Naughty by Nature are a Grammy Award-winning American hip hop trio from East Orange, New Jersey that at the time of its formation in 1989 consisted of Treach, Vin Rock, and the DJ Kay Gee...

       for Poverty's Paradise

Reggae

  • Best Reggae Album
    Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works in the reggae music genre...

    • Shaggy for Boombastic

Rock

  • Best Female Rock Vocal Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to female recording artists for works containing quality vocal performances in the rock music genre...

    • Alanis Morissette
      Alanis Morissette
      Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

       for "You Oughta Know"
  • Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to male recording artists for works containing quality vocal performances in the rock music genre...

    • Tom Petty
      Tom Petty
      Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T...

       for "You Don't Know How It Feels"
  • Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
    Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
    The Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal was awarded between 1980 and 2011.The award was discontinued after the 2011 award season in a major overhaul of Grammy categories...

    • Blues Traveler
      Blues Traveler
      Blues Traveler is a rock band, formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. The band has been influenced by a variety of genres, including blues-rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, soul, and Southern rock...

       for "Run-Around"
  • Best Rock Instrumental Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance was an honor presented to recording artists for quality instrumental rock performances at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...

    • Allman Brothers Band for "Jessica"
  • Best Hard Rock Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance was an award presented to recording artists at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, for works containing quality performances in the hard rock music genre...

    • Pearl Jam
      Pearl Jam
      Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...

       for "Spin the Black Circle"
  • Best Metal Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance
    The Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance was an award presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for works containing quality performances in the heavy metal music genre...

    • Nine Inch Nails
      Nine Inch Nails
      Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...

       for "Happiness in Slavery"
  • Best Rock Song
    Grammy Award for Best Rock Song
    The Grammy Award for Best Rock Song is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality songs in the rock music genre...

    • Alanis Morissette
      Alanis Morissette
      Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

       & Glen Ballard
      Glen Ballard
      Glen Ballard is an American songwriter and record producer, best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill , which won Grammy Award for "Best Rock Album", and "Album of the Year" amongst others, and is ranked by the Rolling Stone amongst The 500 Greatest Albums of...

       (songwriters) for "You Oughta Know" performed by Alanis Morissette
  • Best Rock Album
    Grammy Award for Best Rock Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Rock Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality albums in the rock music genre...

    • Glen Ballard
      Glen Ballard
      Glen Ballard is an American songwriter and record producer, best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill , which won Grammy Award for "Best Rock Album", and "Album of the Year" amongst others, and is ranked by the Rolling Stone amongst The 500 Greatest Albums of...

       (producer) & Alanis Morissette
      Alanis Morissette
      Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

       for Jagged Little Pill

Spoken

  • Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album
    Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Performance, Documentary or Spoken Word...

    • Maya Angelou
      Maya Angelou
      Maya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...

       for Phenomenal Woman
  • Best Spoken Comedy Album
    • Jonathan Winters
      Jonathan Winters
      -Early life:Winters was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, the son of Alice Kilgore , a radio personality, and Jonathan Harshman Winters II, an investment broker. He is a descendant of Valentine Winters, founder of the Winters National Bank in Dayton, Ohio...

       for Crank Calls

Traditional pop

  • Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album is an award presented to recording artists at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...

    • Frank Sinatra
      Frank Sinatra
      Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

       for Duets II

World

  • Best World Music Album
    Grammy Award for Best World Music Album
    The Grammy Award for Best World Music Album was an honor presented for twelve years to recording artists for quality albums in the world music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...

    • Deep Forest
      Deep Forest
      Deep Forest is a musical group consisting of two French musicians, Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet. They compose a style of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electronic sounds and dance beats or chillout beats...

       for Boheme

Trivia

  • Both Mariah Carey
    Mariah Carey
    Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...

     and Alanis Morissette
    Alanis Morissette
    Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

     received six nominations each, but although first-time nominee Alanis won four out her six nominations, Mariah, considered by many to be at the peak of her career and also having received the highest number of simultaneous nominations in her career up to that point, was completely shut out. Alanis Morissette was 21 years old at the time making her the youngest artist to win Album of the Year. She held this record until 2010 when Taylor Swift
    Taylor Swift
    Taylor Alison Swift is an American country pop singer-songwriter, musician and actress.In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", then her self-titled debut album, which was subsequently certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America...

     at 20 became the youngest artist to win the award.
  • KISS
    KISS (band)
    Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...

     with Tupac Shakur
    Tupac Shakur
    Tupac Amaru Shakur , known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world...

    made their appearance to present the Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal award, this was Kiss's first public appearance reunited with the original band members.
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